Oh hey, been a bit but I’m glad you came back to this. I honestly really liked the book. Very rushed ending though I’d argue. I like a lot of what they did with the mercenaries and with nightblood along with the general lore. Everything with lightsong and blushweaver was great too but at times the book dwadled around and when it came to it, answers seemed to just be tossed together and regirgatated (can’t spell that shit). Lightning always kept me entertained though.

I know that’s a lot of complaining but other than the end the book was very good. It is his style to have everythingfall together at the end it seems but the other four books I’ve read by him seem much more-like a bunch of pieces falling into place and a few things blowing up spectacularly than this one which felt like “and then it turned out some people are bad and the others are good. Here’s why it all happened and some lore too. They also fight. But wait? Happily ever after too.”

I don’t regret reading it at all though. All three stories were great in their own right and the world is certainly my favourite. The system is so interesting along with the culture. I hope he revisits it.

God, sorry for the novella, but you did make the mistake of asking me about a book. You fool.

Took a break but now I’m 400 pages into way of kings BTW. Liking it a lot so far.

Product iteration is slow and it’s very likely that these things coming out now (the 12 in specific) were in the pipeline before the 16 released.

Yeah, I agree, something to do with the 16 should have been given in this release. I disagree wholly with the idea of creating two new skews before making true the implicit promises of the 16 (upgradability, interchangeability, and a 240 watt charger. Though, no charger like that exists for USB-C yet from anyone so that ones a bit more understandable)

The PC I personally assume was them being pressured by investors to do something “AI”. That’s a real thing that as a web dev I’ve been seeing like crazy. Investors are pushing absurdly hard for something AI. This, likely, was the quickest to ship product they could hold up to satiate the beast.

Yeah, it is disapointing. Understandable though and I personally didn’t expect an upgrade any time soon myself but it’s a slap in the face for the 16 buyers and concerning to say the least. If the 16 fails to deliver on a laptop with an upgradable dGPU, it’ll be another on a very long list.

They did also lie about it in many ways. On release, cyberpunk was nothing like what they promised continually.

Silksong, however, has had exactly no information outside a small demo, a trailer, some art, and now 6 small clips and images.

I don’t know what to expect from silksong and that makes me happy. The hype train has set up a bigger world, new movement, and a few fun looking blss fights. I’m sure they can deliver on that

I’d argue this is more like “I want to build a competitor to spotify so let’s decide between using mariaDB or writing an SQL compliant database from scratch”

In your example, a database is the end goal and you can either start with a premade or make your own.

Here, a social media platform is the end goal. Activitypub is a very important part of it but it’s not the entire piece.

If we replace the parts of your analogy with the original your example would parse out to “I want to make a competitor to lemmies ActivityPub integration, so let’s start with fedify” which is not the same as the article states.

Now, should you re-impliment a protocol yourself or use a generic library is the real question. Both have their benefits. With option A you have full code ownership and can wrap your solution around your end goal without the issue of dealing with the original to get needed changes accepted. You don’t have to worry about code not written by or understood by you. With option B, you get a more robust and almost certainly more accurate implementation. Along with, for free, better integration with any service using the same library. Very useful for a federated service when talking about cross platform.

Both have many more positives and negatives of course and each person should decide on their own how to proceed.

My opinion? I think it’s usually best to own anything which could feasibly be understood by a single dev. Even if each dev doesn’t. Anything larger shouldn’t be internal in my strong opinion unless very good, specific reasons apply that makes an external solution impossible or increadibly difficult. Most negatives of an external library also apply at that point with enough time.

That is wild man. You have a +350 from me on Voyager. I’ve seen you around interacting constantly, with well thought out a soften insightful comments. I’ve never seen anything truly hateful from you either. Why on earth do they think you’re a genocidal racist?

And if you’re not, which is likely, why try and bully off someone with so much use to the platform? If you left people would notice the loss quickly.

Thanks for the transparency. Always sad to see a defederation but this seems justified. Thank you for your work mods

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I know, from other images it looks like an old Dr. Dabber e-rig glass piece

We can’t do anything about the boat sinking gun, or try and take it away from the boat sinker, because that would be against good decorum. Don’t worry though, we’ve thrown that guy who called the boat sinker a fuckhead off the boat. We have to take the high road and follow the rules or who knows what the boat sinker will do next. We’ll calmly convince them to lower the amount of holes they put in the boat while cmpromising by understanding that some of those holes were needed.

Vote for us, and we’ll only put a few holes in the boat

Next time try washing the abv. Putit in water in some container, let it soak a few hours, shake, soak, drain. Repeat until the water comes off mostly clean. Then spread it out on a cookie sheet to dry. If your oven goes low enough putting in there can speed things up. Takes quite some time, days even, but it’s worth it. I cannot stand the taste of abv

Native Linux version too btw and it works great

Or do like me and install to a 200gb partition, then carve down the window partition to create a third partition to keep new files, repeat untill you have 5 partitions on your drive. After that, find that you haven’t touched windows in forever and wipe it now that everything is spread between an unethical amount of partitions.

At least I can give them funny names

I’d suggest the hands on approach personally. It may take some time to get up though.

You can install a distro onto a USB stick and boot from it to play around and see if you like it.

Here’s a quick tutorial:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/preparing-boot-media/

And separately the distro I’d reccomemd using:
https://fedoraproject.org/spins/kde/

After you create the live CD you should be able to keep it plugged in and boot to using this method from howtogeek:
https://www.howtogeek.com/129815/beginner-geek-how-to-change-the-boot-order-in-your-computers-bios/

To be clear if you stop there Linux will not installed, you won’t lose any data, and you can just unplug the USB stick to allow windows to boot up when you restart.

One note, sinceit’s installed to a USB stick it’ll be a bit slower than if you installed it on your PC. Still though, it’ll be the same idea.

Here’s a full guide on how to install it:

https://www.howtogeek.com/693588/how-to-install-linux/

Thank you! I have read others too. Just got finished the original mistborn trilogy but I started out with Tress of the Emerald Sea a while back from a friends recommendation. Took a few chapters but Tress is likely to be one of my favorite books. Still gotta re-read to properly place it though.

I know I’m late to the party but just started WarBreaker by Brandon Sanderson. Really liking the book so far.

Oh shit though you’re reading amulet? I absolutely loved that series as teenager. Got all the books but in the wrong order. Still love the art and remember it fondly.

I guess there’s not much to this argument at this point between us. I hope you’re right, and I would assume some resistance, but do doubt it to be significant. The courts are captured, national dems are weak, and even when talking about the power of state dems I’ve not seen much strong and resilient push back. Lastly, national dems have quite a bit of power in state politics. Don’t doubt the ability of a crab to pull down it’s fellow crab in it’s own attempt to leave the bucket.

Thanks for the conversation. Though I’m a bit more pessimistic I can see you’re at least a reasonable person

Not really if it’s threatened and the dems instantly fold. A dozen or so congress members and few senate members in support of freezing elections, the threat of violence, and a continuation of what see we now. That’s about all that’s needed.

Still, though it’d argue it unlikely, military intervention cannot be ruled out

On this being a separate situation it’s not really. It’s just an expansion of your own hypothetical. In a world where red states halt elections they would also pressure blue states to do the same. Blue states would likely fold as they have to many of the more important issues recently.

OK. That’s a wild thing to say. If you’re willing to say that the red states may illegally fail to hold elections can you not recognize the likelyhood that they’d stop, by force, blue states from doing the same?

Do you seriously think blue states wouldn’t fold if pressured to stop elections?

I’m not convinced that any of this will come to pass and elections will be stopped but if they want to they can and will.

Absolutely. Which is why I like medium sized series of books that way the next book is usually clear, but I don’t have the secondary issue of never feeling like I’m “done” you get with long series.

Start looking when you get to the last book and by the time you’re through you can hop right in

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